Visual Arts:
Considered one of the leading figures in 20th-century American art, the painter __________ studied at the Harlem Art Workshop and was one of many prominent artists to work for the W.P.A. during the Great Depression
Jacob Lawrence
The first acclaimed artist to understand and exploit oil painting was
Jan van eyck
Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him?
Michelangelo and Raphael
What are the two main differences between prints and most other forms of art?
Prints are made using an indirect process and this process results in multiples of the same image.
In oil painting, linseed oil acts as
a binder
By the 1950s, this new synthetic paint would challenge oil paints as the principal painting medium:
acrylic
One of the advantages of oil painting is that it dries very slowly. This allows for
all these answers are correct
In printmaking, where multiple images are made from the same original design, each individual print is called
an impression
In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment.
cartoon
Yvonne Jacquette's Three Mile Island, Night 1 uses the medium of
charcoal
Picasso and Braque, working side-by-side, glued bits of paper and other objects onto canvas to create:
collages
The work of Sol LeWitt can best be described as
conceptual
a non-aqueous paint is one that
dissolves in something other than water
Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are:
encaustic and fresco
The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax is
encuastic
____ is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it
gouache
One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink ______ the surface of the printing plate
lies below
which of the following is NOT on the techniques of intaglio printing?
linocut
The printing technique invented by a German playwright in search of an inexpensive means of publishing his plays is:
lithography
Which printmaking process did Philip Guston use to make Curtain
lithography
The predecessor of the graphite pencil, especially popular during the Renaissance, is
metalpoint
Which of the following printing techniques is especially capable of producing subtle shades of grey
mezzotint
Except in the case of _______ , identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking
monotypes
In printmaking, a plate or block will be canceled so that:
no more prints can be made from it
which of the following is an example of a non aqueous medium?
oil paint
An example of a liquid medium in drawing is
pen and ink
what is pigment in paint?
powdered color
after building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of
primer
Which artist painted the fresco the school of athens?
raphael
Printing impressions on top of one another from separate blocks in order to achieve full-color woodcut prints requires careful alignment of the paper, known as
registration
A rubber stamp creates what type of print?
relief
Watercolor's primary characteristic is its:
transparency
In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to
wet plaster
in relief printing the ink is
??
What is the main difference between a woodcut and a wood engraving?
A woodcut is created on a surface cut along the grain, a wood engraving is created on a surface cut across the grain.
The earliest known printed book contains the earliest surviving woodcut image. The book was made in the 9th century C.E. in:
China
The 20th century master of the fresco technique who created the work Mixtec Culture is ______.
Diego Rivera
